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The Mayfly Dance
The Mayfly Dance
It snowed on Christmas Eve
Nineteen Seventy Six
But that was later.
Earlier we had all met up
In our favourite student pub
Everyone under age and eager
The girls in cheesecloth shirts
And tight fitting Levis
The boys sporting long hair and moustaches
We didn’t look Seventeen
As we chose the jukebox plays
Of Zeppelin, Skynyrd ...
Saturday 20th May 2017 12:41 pm
Xenophobe
Xenophobe
centuries turn
witches burn
mantra
monsters
under the bed
home is where
the heart is
not like me
me not like
trolls
under bridges
bogeyman
is gonna get ya
spreading
like a virus
mantra
monsters
in my head
trolls
in the darkness
bogeyman
is gonna get ya
home is where
the hurt is
attacking
healthy
white c...
Thursday 2nd June 2016 12:47 pm
A Pointy Reckoning
A Pointy Reckoning
She had blonde hair
and beautiful, blue, eyes
and these were far more
Innocent times.
Comprehensive,
seventy six,
before we left
for adulthood.
I was seventeen
and made to look fifty,
she was a year younger
and made to look black.
In a school
in West Yorkshire
we had no black girls
in the sixth form
and the only w...
Monday 9th May 2016 11:54 pm
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